My household ran out of toilet paper. We purchase many of these staple supplies from CostCo, mainly because I hate going to the grocery store, my wife does not drive, and the ritual of procuring palettes of staple supplies produces in me a sense of well being and ease. To know I have enough toilet paper and rice to last a typhoon puts me at peace.

Nisi Shawl writes: “Shoot the Buffalo” is a small, perfect book about large, messy things. … Laying out his larger themes without trickiness or pretension, Briggs pins them in place using vivid particularities.

Stacey Levine and I will be reading throughout the region below the 48th parallel this fall from our recently released Clear Cut novels. We will be performing alongside a number of excellent writers and musicians including Denis Johnson (at Trapdoor62 on 10/20) and The Watery Graves (at Elliott Bay on 10/27).

In Kitchen, published almost twenty years ago, Banana Yoshimoto collected two short works about life and death in modern Japan. She has since become internationally known with eight books of close observation about grief and the hesitant spirituality of young people.
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This from The New York Sun: Fire and ice took center stage Sunday at KGB Bar. Matt Briggs, author of “Shoot the Buffalo” (Clear Cut Press), read a fictional scene about hypothermia, while David Levinson, author of “Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will” (Gardners Books), read a story about a woman who ritually burns her deceased son’s belongings as part of her grieving process. Kate Benson, author of “Two Harbors” (Harvest Books), also read. Her literary agent was spotted in the audience.

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